Re: Netscape
Keith G. Murphy wrote: That's interested. I seem to have experienced the most problems when I was running it under AfterStep; fewer now that I run under IceWM (no GNOME). Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS. This has been consistent over different Window Managers and versions of NS. I have experienced this as well. Only thing I can do about it is fill in the text boxes, then go back and to the combo boxes, and restart netscape when I'm done. This gets annoying, but it's all I can find to do about it... --Ryan Chouinard
Re: Netscape
Kent West wrote: Greg Starkes wrote: Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I never had a problem either, until I decided to try kde. Then I would have a crash usually once a day. I normally use Window Maker, under which netscape runs without a problem. Could this be the cause? KDE does set a bunch of x resources for colors and fonts, so maybe it does something that netscape doesn't like. Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch -- I just ignore the messages now so I don't remember what they say). So it may be that the people having crashes have fewer resources than the people not having crashes. I run Window Maker, and I always have. My dad (who alo uses this machine) uses KDE, due to it's simplicity and user friendly interface. Even he has no problems. I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I am unaware of any other great browser for Linux, although I don't doubt thier existance. I also never used Linux on anything less than a K6/233 with 64 megs of ram and an S3 ViRGE/DX video card. I believe you may have struck it with the resource problem. I can't speak (or, in this case type) for anyone else, but I would like some input from other users and thier experience with Netscape on Linux. --Ryan Chouinard (I just noticed all my lines start with I. Heh...)
Updates
Hey It's me again, but this time with a question. Debian.org offers updates on software packages, but are there archives elsewhere with other packages? I hear people talk about using apt (Something I, regretably, have yet to play with) and using different sites and archives. I'd like to tap into these resources as well... I'll see what apt can do in a minute, but I just thought I'd see if I could get some pointers ;-) --Ryan Chouinard
Netscape Feedback
Hey, Well, I got quite a bit of feedback on Netscape, and I have to agree that it, like any other applications, has it's bugs. However, Netscape Communications is a commercial company, and as such they are usually expected to produce higher quality products. I can see that with Linux this is not always the case, but I would still expect better testing and debugging than is evident. The feedback I received tells me six things: Netscape... 1.) Java support is buggy 2.) requires outrages resource allocation than is necessary 3.) was not debugged very well, as evident with the MAILTO: link bug; even if it is known, it has yet to be fixed. 4.) is sluggish, even on my friend's PIII 450, also running Debian 5.) is lacking many features Windows users enjoy, which could be easily implanted 6.) doesn't play well with older video cards, or cards with low memory I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but these seem to be the most common. Netscape has a lot of work to do if they want to remain in the good with Linux users. Thank you everyone that sent me info. If anyone has other problems, let me know so I can add them to my report. --Ryan Chouinard BTW, whatever happened to Gecko? (Netscape's proposed engine for the 5.x series; seems to have disappeared after 4.51...)
Help with apt
Hey It's me again, but this time with a question. Debian.org offers updates on software packages, but are there archives elsewhere with other packages? I hear people talk about using apt (Something I, regretably, have yet to play with) and using different sites and archives. I'd like to tap into these resources as well... I'll see what apt can do in a minute, but I just thought I'd see if I could get some pointers ;-) --Ryan Chouinard
Netscape
I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? --Ryan Chouinard
Kernel problems
Hey, I have used Red Hat 5.2 in the past, and recently switched to Debian 2.1. I had trouble getting the ALSA modules to work with the default 2.0.36 kernel, so I compiled my own 2.2.10, and then I could get sound to work, after manually loading the modules every boot, but my cdrom drive stopped working, and the system seemed to continue trying to use the modules from 2.0.36, causing several problems. Can anyone lend me assistance in creating a custom kernel and installing the ALSA modules correctly? Here is some info on my system, just in case: Kernel: Whatever works, preferably 2.2.x, currently default 2.0.36 CDROM: ATAPI IDE Sound: SB16/PnP I would appreciate any help/input, as I happen to like my cdrom drive, and have a huge collection of mp3s I can't listen to right now ;-P --Ryan Chouinard
